Númenórean Blood Runs Black Planning/Discussion Thread

[The Perky Ent]

Well let's see...

*pulls piece of parchment out of pocket* ...


Gondorian Forces – No Female Characters Please

First Ship

• King Telumehtar Umbardacil – The Perky Ent
• Advisor/Record Keeper to the King – Menelcar – Played by Firefoot
• Sea Captain - Played by Folwren

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Second Ship

• Captain - Played by Alcarillo
  
  
• Soldier - STILL NEEDED
  
• Soldier - STILL NEEDED

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Corsairs - No Female Characters Please

• Lord of Umbar – Played by Hiriel
• Lord of Umbar - Played by Anguirel
• Corsair Captain - played by Amanaduial the archer
• Slave – played by Eorl of Rohan
• Slave - played by dancing spawn of ungoliant
  
  
• Slaver Commander - STILL NEEDED

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Note 1: The Lords of Umbar are the sons of Angamaitë and Sangahyando. Angamaitë and Sangahyando are the direct descendants of Castamir, and former rulers of Umbar.

Note 2: The Slaves were those who stayed under the ship and manned the many ores of the ship. There’d be around 250 chained slaves per ship.

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Character types which would not belong: Any female characters, Elves, Hobbits, Dwarves, Orcs, or anything that is not specificed by the character list

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I'd say that'd be a yes

Please note that Amanaduial the Archer and Dancing Spawn of Ungoliant are now playing with us! They will be the Corsair captian and the slave!

[The Perky Ent]

Whoops. It seems my Mirth has caught ahead of me >.<

I just read your post, Dancing Spawn and Aman! Yes, Corsair games are the fun (not that I'd know. This is my first) I will enjoy your presence!

Pio- I just sent you a PM with the approved profiles!


Please bear with me if my box is full. I have about 4 PM's I'm saving, and the rest just keep flowing in!

Originally Posted by The ever inquisitive Folwren

Edit: One last thing! Playing the role of a Captain, and having to write the history of him, I need to know - do you think that they would have trained captains and officers as they did back in the 1800's? (Really, if you haven't picked up on it yet, I don't know much about ships out of that time period.) As in, whilst a boy, he decides he wants to join, goes in, and is one of the 'young gentlemen' and learns on board ship, living there, doing the work, learning from the Captain and ship's tutor, makes his way up from there, and eventually is rated Captain? I doubt Tolkien thought about that too much, so if no one has any opinion one way or another on this matter, Alcarillo and I can figure it out.

At this point, I really don't care It's up to you. One of the reasons why I picked a game like this is because it's just a little blotch in the Appendicies

1810 - Telumehtar Umbardacil retakes Umbar

There aren't are real boundries, except that the Corsair lords must die, Telumehtar can't, and the Gondorians have to win. Beyond that, It's all up to you (basically !

[piosenniel]

I'm putting together the Discussion Thread for the game. You can view the Bios/Posts there that Perky has approved.

~*~ Pio

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Just a reminder:

Only these people may post to the thread. All other posts will be deleted.

• The Perky Ent - game manager
  
  
• Alcarillo
• Amanaduial the archer
• Anguirel
• dancing spawn of ungoliant
• Dunwen
• Eorl of Rohan
• Firefoot
• Folwren
• Hiriel
• Kath
• Thinlómien
  
  
• Shire mods - Piosenniel & Child of the 7th Age

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[The Perky Ent]

oooo DT Pretty! I can't wait :-)

[Amanaduial the archer]

Ok, ok...behold the total boat-novice prepare to play the Captain of a Corsair ship. This could be interesting, and I've got a feeling that until I'm used to it...well, it ain't lookin' pretty. But then, we can't all be Johnny Depps

Sorry, just to get a few things straight: Firstly, the actual ship itself, and this is mainly addressed to those players who will also be aboard the corsair ship. What type of vessel are we looking at here, any particular preferences? My first choice would probably be the Xebec, or Shebec. Quoting one of Pio's resources:

The Shebec was favoured among Barbary pirates for she was fast, stable and large. They could reach 200 tons and carried from 4 to 24 cannon. In addition she carried from 60 to 200 crewmen. The Shebec had a pronounced overhanging bow and stern, and three masts which were generally lateen-rigged. In addition to sails she was rowed.

Stability would be especially good for a fighting ship; rowing in addition to sails fits with the slaving business on these ships; fast but, as can be seen from the picture, fairly streamlined, would make it easily manoeverable and both good for attack and escapes; and the large size would make the Lords happy, as it looks pretty darn fiersome. The whole shape of the ship would make a rather fiersome silhouette as well - fiersome and certainly distinctive, no? Ooh, and I rather like the look of that there spike a-sticking out of the back as well...

The alternative option would be either a Carrack or a Man of War. These two have advantages in that they are...well, to call them chunky would be an understatement, I think the phrase used on the site I'm looking at it 'towering giants'. These are the true power in the water - they would both be almost impossible to take unless the enemy had the element of surprise, and in this sense would be quite suitable for the ship on which the two Lords of Umbar were to travel. However...as the size increases, the manoeverability rather decreases - they would be nowhere near as fast as the Xebec, and for a pirate vessel this is a serious downer. What is more, while I'm sure they could probably accomodate oar decks as well, I'm not entirely sure, and this would make them unsuitable for this game. And I don't think they would appeal to Sangalazin's aescetic senses So I suppose, unless anyone really feels particularly attached to having The Mother of All Hulks, then these sort of ship builds are out.

Personally, I prefer the Xebec. I suppose that the Brigantine (the more traditional type of ship - think Pirates of the Caibbean. Here....) would work about as well as the Xebec in most ways, but personally I prefer this type of ship - it is undoubtedly fearsome and distinctive, very fitting for the purposes of the corsairs, and, well, it's just so snazzy!

Secondly...well, there was a secondly, but on second thoughts (three times in one sentence, good lord get a new vocabularly...) I think I shall simply attack the profile and hope what comes out is suitable! Please let me know what you think about the ship (Xebec, xebec, xebec...)